155 W. Va. 489 - Pinfold Ex Rel. Pinfold v. Hendricks’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1991
6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 149 W. Va. 166 - Roberts Ex Rel. Roberts v. Gale · 122 W. Va. 522 - Fielder v. Service Cab Co. · 139 W. Va. 607 - Roush v. Johnson · 144 W. Va. 178 - State Ex Rel. Shatzer v. Freeport Coal Co. · 151 W. Va. 322 - Smith v. Edward M. Rude Carrier Corp.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon a motion to direct a verdict for the defendant, every reasonable and legitimate inference fairly arising from the testimony, when considered in its entirety, must be indulged in favorably to plaintiff; and the court must assume as true those facts which the jury may properly find under the evidence.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.